Productive

We are having a ridiculous summer and autumn here, complete with a terrible drought over the North Island.  It is difficult to enjoy the warmer days when you know that farmers and growers are struggling.  I'm capturing the extra water from our showers to keep our little garden going, and it's just enough water.

In fact, due to the warmer weather, our garden has been a bit of a bonanza.  This has been my first attempt at "real" gardening, and it's a rousing success so far.  We've eaten lettuce, spinach and zucchini as well as basil, mint and parsley from the garden over the past couple of months.

Go little zucchini!

Baby brocolli are starting to peek through

Baby spinach, rapidly outgrowing its box

These flowers died in the height of the drought, but magically regenerated during a short period of rain.

Buttercrunch lettuce, mint and parsley

More lettuce, basil and the dreaded oxalis

Out of the garden and into my tum!

This is the downside of a bumper summer - these bulbs were supposed to hide away and come up in the spring time.  With the warm weather they've come up right as winter kicks off.  Or maybe this is supposed to happen?

This is the laundry door - this time last week it was possible to walk through it without your face getting clawed open by the climbing roses.  Seriously, out of control, so I spent some quality time with the old hammer and got them back against the wall.